23.Sep.2022
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Review: MorphOS audio player bePlayer 1.4
David Brunet has published a review of the MorphOS multi-format audio player bePlayer by French developer Bruno Peloille on his Obligement news page. The original article is in French, but machine translations are provided. (dr)
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23.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi
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AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.8r1
At the end of July, the AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos had already published the code analysis tool "Flawfinder", which searches for potential security holes in source files. Now he has ported Cppcheck, a program for static code analysis for the programming languages C and C++. A GUI is not available, the tool must be operated via the shell. (dr)
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22.Sep.2022
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Harvey 'Harv' Laser (AmigaZone, Amiga Companion) passed away
Harvey 'Harv' Laser was a US based Amiga journalist who published thousands of articles in various Amiga publications. He also established the commercial, Amiga-only online service 'AmigaZone' and maintained it for several decades. Laser passed away after a heart attack on July 5, 2022. Mike Battilana, who knew Laser for a long time, posted a short obituary in the 'Remembering our Friends' section of the Amiga Forever website. (cg)
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22.Sep.2022
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Unofficial successor: "It Returned From The Desert" for Windows
Tim Rachor's "It returned from the desert" (YouTube video of the early prototype) is supposed to be an unofficial successor of the Amiga game It came from the desert and is supposed to be released for Windows, maybe also for Linux and possibly Android if there is enough demand.
The game is written in Unity and is not supposed to be a sequel or remake, but an independent game. The gameplay is to be modernized a bit, offering fewer dead ends, thus avoiding tough trial&error. And the combat mini-game is to be replaced by tactical, turn-based combat - while retaining the great atmosphere and exciting story of the original. As Tim writes to us, he spent endless hours sitting at a friend's house as a kid enjoying this game. Even then, however, the many dead ends frustrated him, so he wanted to make it better with his game: more beginner-friendly, respectively fairer.
The goal is to finish the game in the course of this year. And if someone should find a way to port the finished game to the Amiga, he would be happy to give his permission, provided that the quality is maintained. But he has neither the know-how nor the time to do it himself. (dr)
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22.Sep.2022
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Business simulation: Unofficial update for Dynatech
Dynatech is an economic simulation game by Magic Bytes from 1993 for AGA-Amigas: raw materials and open spaces on Earth are exhausted, and the supply of mankind is to be secured through the discovery and development of alien planets. As the boss of "Dynatech", a gigantic corporation for the production of conveyor systems, building complexes and storage facilities, it is the player's task to get hold of transport orders and to enter the business with raw materials and refineries (taken from Amiga Games 11/92).
30 years after the release of this game, a user has now released an unofficial update that primarily transfers the German localization into English. Besides numerous minor bug fixes, however, the "Dynatech 30th Anniversary Edition" also fixes a problem with the AGA version of the game, which caused the original version to render with half the intended color precision bit depth. Likewise, the update features carefully redesigned graphics and user interface. (dr)
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21.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4: New versions of newlib.library and string.gadget class
Via AmiUpdate two updated system files are availble: string.gadget lass 53.24 and Kickstart module newlib.library 53.80. Changes:
string.gadget V53.24
- Rewrote the SHK_PASSWORD handling in the GM_RENDER method in a way that does not require temporarily replacing the buffer in si->Buffer (fixes a race condition when STRINGA_TextVal is read).
- No longer temporarily writes an 'n' character to the end of the buffer, which should fix some nasty race conditions when accessing the buffer.
- Fixed the text cursor sometimes being rendered with a wrong width when placed at the end of the string. This bug was a side effect of changes made in the previous release.
newlib.library.kmod V53.80 (excerpt)
- Fixed the clock() function which was comparing time values using different different epochs, as well as time zones if the local time zone did not
happen to be GMT.
- Replaced GetSysTime() in rusage() and clock() with GetUpTime() which is guaranteed to be monotonically increasing.
- Fixed a bug in setstate() that would cause the long word in front of the previous state buffer to be overwritten instead of the the first long word in the buffer.
- Made always include as it is needed for SIZE_MAX, for now at least.
- Added the previously missing asnprintf(), vasnprintf(), _asnprintf_r() and vasnprintf_r() functions to shared object and small data builds of libc.
- Disabled .__newlib_version section and linker warnings for shared object build of libc.
- Updated libauto.a to the latest version with VBCC support.
- mongetpcs() now uses the locally opened elf.library interface instead of relying on a global IElf interface existing.
(dr)
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21.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5 (update)
At the end of October 2018, RadeonHD driver version 3.6 came out with the release of the "Enhancer Software Graphics Upgrade", as a supplement to the Enhancer 1.x package, which later also became part of Enhancer Software 2.0. With version 2.1 of Enhancer, version 3.7 of the graphics card driver was released.
Finally, version 2.2 of the Enhancer software was released recently, which did not include a new RadeonHD driver, but did include an updated version (1.11) of the va.library. The Video Acceleration Library was developed to support hardware video decoding on Radeon Polaris (RX) cards. Apparently, hardware acceleration for both Polaris RX cards and RadeonHD cards was already integrated in this version, but for the latter case, version 5 of the RadeonHD graphics card drivers was required, which was not yet available at that time (see AmigaKit's contribution on Amigans). Among other things, this resulted in the media player Emotion from Entwickler-X now crashing, because the software loaded the new va.library but did not find version 5 of the RadeonHD driver. This could only be solved by deactivating or reverting to the old version.
After purchasing it under the title link for 50 Euro at AmigaKit (still not available on AmiStore), now this driver is available as version 5.14 via the Updater tool, device-specific for the SAM 460 and the two AmigaOne computers, X1000 and X5000 and brings the driver up to the same feature set as the RadeonRX driver. Most important changes:
- Dropped support for all graphics cards older than Southern Islands
- switched to a new code-base for the core
- added Dynamic Power Management (DPM)
- added UVD (hardware accelerated video decoding) support
- added GART support
- A bunch of miscellaneous fixes and improvements
Suitable graphics cards can be found via the RadeonHD driver compatibility page.
The RadeonHD v5 driver works also fine without the Enhancer Software. But it is required for hardware accelerated video decoding.
Update: (24.09.2022, 07:38, dr)
According to AmigaKit in a press release, the new RadeonHD driver can be directly purchased on A-EON's website until he will be made available on AmiStore. (dr)
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20.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi
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Platformer: "BlobWars: Attrition" 1.2.2r2 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
A month ago, the AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos - among others aiostreams, Flawfinder, Lite XL or iGame - had released the first version of his port of the commercial platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported).
The now updated version is also available for MorphOS for the first time and offers a lot of bug fixes, but especially an improvement of the performance. So the game should now be playable on not so powerful computers and SDL renderers, as long as you have a graphics card with some memory available. Unfortunately, it still wouldn't be playable on computers with 32 MB of graphics memory or less. Also, the debugging window that appears when the game starts has been removed.
The developer himself tested the MorphOS version on a PowerBook G4, where it "worked quite well". On his X5000 with the Radeon HD 6850, the game unfortunately only worked with a software renderer and was not playable due to a lack of suitable drivers.
Anyone who wants to support the author has the opportunity to do so on his Ko-fi website. The author returns 50% of the donations to the community at the end of each month by supporting projects or developers. (dr)
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20.Sep.2022
Hans de Ruiter
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server 'ZitaFTP' 1.35
A week ago Hans de Ruiter had released version 1.34 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP' (amiga-news.de reported). Users reported here crashes at program start, which was due to a missing initialization of AmiSSL. The bug has been fixed and version 1.35 is available for existing users either via AmiUpdate or as download under the title link. (dr)
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19.Sep.2022
Erik Hogan
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.7
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.7. Changes:
- Mouse support, including support for two simultaneous mice
- Improved support for separating assets for different targets (to make it easier to have specific animations or levels for OCS, AGA etc)
- Further performance gains from improved 68K compilation
- Various bug fixes and feature additions
You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)
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18.Sep.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 31 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 31 was published. (dr)
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18.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to Aminet:
ZitaFTPServer.lha comm/tcp 14M OS4 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
MCE.lha game/edit 3.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.7M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ADoom-1.4.1.lha game/shoot 184K 68k Amiga port of DOOM
DoomSndLibs.lha game/shoot 31K 68k New Sound & Music Libraries f...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.9M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
dS-tpro.lha text/bfont 123K high res topaz font for squar...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 1.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
ColorPicker.lha util/wb 8K 68k tool for get color from Workb...
(snx)
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18.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 2Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
a1xe_hardware_fixes.zip doc/tut 796kb 4.0 Official Eyetech AmigaOne XE USB...
eaqne.lzx gam/adv 15Mb 4.0 Adventure point and click with d...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 14Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 212kb 4.1 Ignition addon for access ods-files
ign-addon-xlsx.lha off/spr 301kb 4.0 Ignition addon for access xlsx-f...
ignition.lha off/spr 5Mb 4.1 A modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha off/spr 1Mb 4.0 A modern spreadsheet (source)
yt.lha vid/mis 799kb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
(snx)
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18.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to AROS Archives:
murks_0.6.0_fix.lha dev/ide 1Mb Murks an Integrated Development ...
(snx)
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18.Sep.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.09.2022
The following files have been added until 17.09.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Protrekkr_2.6.3r2.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
AmiArcadia_29.11.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ACE_1.25.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
EAQNE_demo.lzx Games/Adventure Adventure point and cli...
MCE_14.0.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
(snx)
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18.Sep.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.09.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 17.09.2022:
(snx)
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18.Sep.2022
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 4.1 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This is now based on WebKitGTK 2.36.7 and thus fixes various errors within WebKit itself. Therefore, the update is recommended despite the fact that due to yesterday's release of WebKitGTK 2.36.8, version 4.2 can already be expected in the next few days.
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (snx)
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18.Sep.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.40 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported).
In version 0.40 he has added 16/9 Parallax side scroller with a warrior, a slot machine update and fixed some bugs. (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #21 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 21 (summer/autumn) are an article about Amiga in NASA service, the second part about the situation of Amiga in 2022 and several game reviews.
The magazine is available as printed issue inclusive Commodore 64/128 coverdisk for 9,54 Euro plus shipping (about 5 Euro) or as digital issue for 2,12 Euro. (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
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Floppy disks, part two: Who got them? Tom Persky!
Recently, the offspring discovered the almost criminally forgotten floppy disks as a game object, which not only our one, but also many readers were drawn into many fond memories. However, there is someone who never lost interest and passion for collecting floppy disks and even made a business out of it: Tom Persky.
He is the founder and operator of floppydisk.com. I stumbled across an Interview with him the other days, which is included in the book Floppy Disk Fever - greetings to Joerg Doege :) and now published by "Eye on Design", the editorial platform around design issues.
He bought the domain in the early 1990s and was originally involved in duplicating floppy disks. As he says, he "never in a million years thought I would ever sell blank floppy disks." His business, which used to be 90% duplicating CDs and DVDs, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. Which he finds shocking. Currently, he has about half a million floppy disks in inventory, but also offers a disk recycling service.
Of course I asked him if he also had experience with Amiga users...As he writes, this is limited to the duplication of floppy disks. He has one or two Amiga customers who order duplications of a few hundred disks. He can still do that, since he still has some duplicators that recognize and support the Amiga format. Unfortunately, since he no longer has any original Amiga equipment, he does the duplication, but the final quality control has to be done by the customer. Even though his equipment is very reliable, there is always some nervousness when he sends disks that he cannot test.
Now it's great that his business still exists, but I wanted to at least see if there was a local alternative to America. I thought I had found one, but the offer to sell blank floppy disks is currently not available. And I was asked not to mention the site either, lest I get a flood of inquiries...;).
So if you are in the process of writing your own text adventure, with umpteen high-resolution background graphics, and want to put it on the market on 10 disks per slipcase, you will have to look elsewhere... ;)
Have a nice weekend! (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-09-16
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
Yesterday version V2022-09-16 was released. Changes:
- fixes an error in Apple II disk image handling that caused corruption upon save
- adds emulation of the Apple II SCSI card
(dr)
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